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MS. Laud Misc. 475

Summary Catalogue no.: 1169

Hugh of St.-Victor, De sacramentis Christianae fidei. Germany, s. xiimed.

Contents

(fols 1r-164r)
Hugh of St.-Victor, De sacramentis Christianae fidei (bk. 2)

With prologue (fol. 1r).

Rubric: Incipit prefaciuncula in librum de sacramentis Christiane fidei
Incipit: Magne sunt in scripturis sacris spiritualium sensuum profundidates
Rubric: In hoc secundo libro sicut in primo capitula […] [Followed by list of 18 parts, and capitula of the first part]
Incipit: In superiori parte operis huius conditionem omnium rerum
Explicit: uidebimus et amabimus, amabimus et laudabimus. Ecce quod erit in fine sine fine.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: que dum
Form: codex
Support: parchment; remnants of medieval repair.
Extent: ii (paper) + i (parchment) + 164 + i (parchment) + ii (paper) leaves; endleaves of the date of the binding
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 125 mm.
Foliation: i-iii, 1-167 in modern (19th-cent.) pencil.

Layout

Ruling in lead point, 1 column of 27-30 lines. Ruled space 140 × c. 75-80 mm.

Hand(s)

Protogothic, s. xiimed, by several hands, above top line. Occasional marginalia and corrections.

Decoration

Initial outlined in red with foliate decoration (fol. 1r).(Pächt and Alexander i. 76)

Coloured initials in red.

Rubrication.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639

History

Origin: Mid 12th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: Identifiable as E III Qn in cat. ii (Mainz, StB, Hs I 577, fol. 117r), 'Hugo de sacramentis', from corresponding second folio: ‘que dum’.

William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower margin of fol. 1r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

Description by Alison Ray and Matthew Holford, Jan. 2024. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 345
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 50

Digital Images

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Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-01-05: Description revised for Mainz digitization project.